JAIPUR: In a gruesome incident, a 32-year-old man killed his wife, infant son and daughter by slitting their throats and later committed suicide by hanging from the ceiling of his one-room rented place in Bunkar colony, situated at Khatipura under Vaishali Nagar police station area, on Thursday. He was allegedly being harassed by a moneylender.
Police have ruled out any foul play and lodged a case of abetment based on the suicide note left by the deceased, identified as Giriraj Rana, who earned his living by selling vegetables. Late in the evening, police arrested the moneylender, Dinesh Yadav, for abetment and started interrogating him. “We have arrested him on charges of abetment and are questioning him,” said a senior officer.
The incident came to light after the landlady, Sunita Kumawat, saw the room of the deceased man locked from inside with television playing loudly inside.
She alerted her husband, Roop Narayan Kumawat, and later called the police at 1.15pm.
Police reached the spot and found the bodies of the woman, identified as Shimla (28), lying under a pool of blood on the single-storey building with four rooms. The body of two-year-old Kanu was found near his mother. “It seems that Rana first overpowered his wife and later slit her throat. Thereafter, he killed his daughter Anushka (4) and son in a similar manner and hanged himself to death. To ensure that the screams of his family were not heard, the television in the room was kept loud,” said Bajrang Singh, additional deputy commissioner of police (west), to TOI after visiting the spot.
Police recovered a suicide note and a knife used for slitting the throats. In the suicide note, Rana has stated that he had taken a loan of Rs 70,000 from Dinesh Yadav and purchased a vehicle to transport vegetables. “He also stated that Yadav took away his vehicle forcibly and was demanding Rs 1.56 lakh, including interest on the principal amount, from him,” Singh said.
When contacted, Anand Srivastav, commissioner of police, said, “It is a clear case of abetment of suicide."
A large number of people gathered in the colony while the police took out the bodies. When TOI spoke to Rasal, the sister of deceased Rana over the phone, she said, “He was disturbed when he came to the village last month. He told us that a person had taken away his vehicle and was demanding money."